Bar owners in Madison may want to throw back a few after hearing this news.
A Minneapolis law firm filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday accusing 25 bars near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and their trade association of conspiring to inflate drink prices from 1990 until last year. The class action lawsuit seeks relief for revelers it claims were ripped off.
The lawsuit also names UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley and two city officials for pressuring bars to illegally raise their prices in an effort to cut down on alcohol-related problems involving students.